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exxos wrote: 17 Feb 2022 08:43
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Think they were the 38mhz STE booster prototypes. I want to get the SEC booster working with ultra fast ROM access in the H5 and STE. Just designing the new ROM board is yet another project I don't have time for :(

Yeah I don't use my STE without one these days. Its painful slow otherwise!

IIRC we did have that particular one running at 40Mhz but there were some problems with ACSI just not working, so we dropped it down to 32Mhz and all was fine :)

Gives the machine a nice boost.

rubber_jonnie wrote: 17 Feb 2022 08:56]
IIRC we did have that particular one running at 40Mhz but there were some problems with ACSI just not working, so we dropped it down to 32Mhz and all was fine :)

Gives the machine a nice boost.

Yeah it had issues with acsi . likely those booster will be phased out soon in favour of the SEC booster. I need to get one plugged into a STE to try it.. At some point. Though not sure it will work out of the box without some firmware tweaks.

exxos wrote: 17 Feb 2022 09:11

rubber_jonnie wrote: 17 Feb 2022 08:56]
IIRC we did have that particular one running at 40Mhz but there were some problems with ACSI just not working, so we dropped it down to 32Mhz and all was fine :)

Gives the machine a nice boost.

Yeah it had issues with acsi . likely those booster will be phased out soon in favour of the SEC booster. I need to get one plugged into a STE to try it.. At some point. Though not sure it will work out of the box without some firmware tweaks.

Always up for some testing if needed :)

Hoping to join the accelerated STE club at some point...just need the plastic fake CPU to try the plug-in booster in the first one, then when #2 & #3 (external Blitter) are repaired I might be in a position to help test too!

Give me a year or two to sort that out first.... :roll:

JezC wrote: 17 Feb 2022 13:41 Hoping to join the accelerated STE club at some point...just need the plastic fake CPU to try the plug-in booster in the first one, then when #2 & #3 (external Blitter) are repaired I might be in a position to help test too!

Give me a year or two to sort that out first.... :roll:

But you've already had a year or two :lol:

rubber_jonnie wrote: 17 Feb 2022 13:48 But you've already had a year or two :lol:

To take a leaf out of the @exxos book
:chairsmack: :chairsmack: :chairsmack:

I'm a s/w engineer, so we are talking s/w engineering estimates!

The first 50 % of the project takes 80% of the time...the last 50% of the work takes the OTHER 80% of the time.
Then (when we finish the job) they change the spec (facepalm)

:D

JezC wrote: 17 Feb 2022 14:15

rubber_jonnie wrote: 17 Feb 2022 13:48 But you've already had a year or two :lol:

To take a leaf out of the @exxos book
:chairsmack: :chairsmack: :chairsmack:

I'm a s/w engineer, so we are talking s/w engineering estimates!

The first 50 % of the project takes 80% of the time...the last 50% of the work takes the OTHER 80% of the time.
Then (when we finish the job) they change the spec (facepalm)

:D

Oh dearie me!

:dizzy:

Surely usually the first 90% of the task takes 10% of the effort?

stephen_usher wrote: 17 Feb 2022 14:52 Surely usually the first 90% of the task takes 10% of the effort?

I think it's going to be a long day...... :lol:

stephen_usher wrote: 17 Feb 2022 14:52 Surely usually the first 90% of the task takes 10% of the effort?

No, that's what the management think! We have what we regard as a more realistic view of things...but the project plans we submit always seem to be tweaked early on in the project planning phase to fit the end date sales have already promised to the customer.
:WTF:

Then they start to take some of the allocated resource from this project to put on the other project that is now "running late" because they changed the planned dates and stole resource off that project to try to catch up the previous one...
:sigh:

There is a reason my many engineers see the Dilbert cartoon as a frighteningly realistic parallel to how things operate in their company!
:lolbig: